Re: v2 bug? path to vcvars32.bat was OK in m-9.1, now broken

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-27 02:26:53

usrlocalinfo wrote:

> v2 milestone 9.1 correctly found vcvars32.bat but the latest CVS
> version comes up with the incorrect path for that file. I'm using the
> same site-config and user-config files.
> 
> My path in 'using msvc-6' is:
> 
> c:/msapps/Microsoft Visual Studio/vc98
> 
> Is my path setting no longer appropriate for the latest v2 or is this
> a bug with boost.build?

You path is no longer appropriate. As documented in 

http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2.advanced.html#bbv2.advanced.configuration

you need to specify the full path to the compiler, like:

c:/msapps/Microsoft Visual Studio/vc98/bin/cl.exe

The change was done to make the rules uniform across all toolsets: before
some toolsets required path to compiler, some name of the compiler and some
'installation directory'.

- Volodya